Pubs do any of you still use them?

[blazed]

There are several of us. There is even someone from Finchley.

 

[slowmotion]

A couple of fantastic pubs in Paddington, one has expressed a desire to host breakfast after a night ride, room for about 80 bikes and riders!

Which ones, I'm curious?

 

[Roadhump]

T'would have been The Swan and Three on Elvet Bridge.

A manager there a few years ago told me it was strict brewery policy to charge the same low prices everywhere.

http://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Restau...hree_Cygnets-Durham_County_Durham_England.htm
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Yes, that's the place

 

[slowmotion]

A swift half can be anything from one to five pints. Definitely.

My very first boss was always exhorting us to go out for a swift half at lunchtime. We spent quite a lot of time in the pubs of 1980's Marylebone. His estimation of volume was invariably out by a factor of eight, sometimes more. Ironically, he was a statistician.

 

[Pale Rider]

My very first boss was always exhorting us to go out for a swift half at lunchtime. We spent quite a lot of time in the pubs of 1980's Marylebone. His estimation of volume was invariably out by a factor of eight, sometimes more. Ironically, he was a statistician.

I worked in an office in Nottingham Street around that time.

Most of my Marylebone drinking was done after work.

There was a tiny pub off the High Street, on the left going south, possibly near Weymouth Street.

In truth, it was a bit of a dump, I think we used it because it made us feel like locals rather than tourists.

 

[slowmotion]

I worked in an office in Nottingham Street around that time.

Most of my Marylebone drinking was done after work.

There was a tiny pub off the High Street, on the left going south, possibly near Weymouth Street.

In truth, it was a bit of a dump, I think we used it because it made us feel like locals rather than tourists.

The Prince Regent on Nottingham Street was our regular watering hole. For special "swift halves" we slotted into The Barley Mow on Dorset Street. They had little wooden booths that become insanely cosy after a few smokes and some grog. We would emerge, blinking into the harsh light of day at some scandalously taxpayer-funded hour.

 

[Accy cyclist]

I tend to visit the pub i mentioned only because i clean their windows on my round so i show my face to keep them sweet. Next time i visit it'll be on my bike without my dog but then i'll spend most the time looking out for opportunist bike thieves in the place!

 

[Pale Rider]

They had little wooden booths that become insanely cosy after a few smokes and some grog.

Ah, the booths.

If I recall, there was a king booth with a couple of tiny benches inside, and a smaller booths with no fitted furniture.

Hard to describe to anyone unfamiliar, but the booths faced the bar, giving the occupants their own length of bar counter.

 

[Accy cyclist]

This pub http://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.u...rms_pub_in_Blackburn_receives_a_blow/?ref=rss was on my round Now it's borded up and nothing's come of the proposed 5 bedroom house.

 

[slowmotion]

Ah, the booths.

If I recall, there was a king booth with a couple of tiny benches inside, and a smaller booths with no fitted furniture.

Hard to describe to anyone unfamiliar, but the booths faced the bar, giving the occupants their own length of bar counter.

Despite all attempts, we never made it to that "Private Chapel". There were always a couple of devout worshippers there already from a very early hour of the morning.

It was a great pub.

 

[nickyboy]

You see I'd say that once you've gone past "a swift half" (ie 2 pints, or 1 to 2 if you believe Mr G) you're into "a few beers", which is 3 to ... infinity, probably. I feel it's a useful distinction.

"A few" beers doesn't sound quite right to me. It was always "a couple" of beers. Similarly that could describe properly taxi-driver-refusing-to-take-me-home drunk

The other aspect of pub culture I always found interesting was the Northern tradition of moving pubs after each drink. Every town I've lived in had a virtually set route for a Friday/Saturday night. If you got out of sync the pub you were in was empty, got it right and it was crammed to the rafters. Southern friends visiting just couldn't get it..."why can't we just stay here in this nice pub and drink beer all night?". Sure, do it....if you want to look like a right weirdo

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

Compared to the one in Greenwich near to my work, which looks like a drop in center for some of the dregs of society.

I'd have thought they'd have just used the bars at Westminster like the other MPs and Lords

 

[Pale Rider]

"
The other aspect of pub culture I always found interesting was the Northern tradition of moving pubs after each drink.

Same here in the North East.

It took me a long time to grasp that six drinks here must mean six pubs.

One effect of the tradition is you end up drinking at the pace of the fastest drinker, or you are literally left behind.

Can be a nuisance if there's a beer monster in the party.

 

[subaqua]

Same here in the North East.

It took me a long time to grasp that six drinks here must mean six pubs.

One effect of the tradition is you end up drinking at the pace of the fastest drinker, or you are literally left behind.

Can be a nuisance if there's a beer monster in the party.

that would be me . but a dive buddy of mine makes me look slooow . he can do 2 pints in the time I have done 1 and I can do 2 in the time most others do one.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

These are my locals...

About 50m from my front door. I won't set foot in it. It encapsulates everything that is wrong with chains that convert pubs to fast food joints. Ironically it used to be a temperance hotel! But the Premier Inn is handy for putting up visitors.

This is where I go to watch the rugby

though sometimes they don't show it in both bars if a really important football game is on, like Oxford vs Wimbledon. And Southern Railway rarely let me, or anyone else, nip across the station passenger bridge to get to it via the station's rear entrance so now it is much further away than it used to be.

Here's where I go drinking with the household younglings and their friends. It is about 1km from our front door...

but if said younglings are going out in town and drag myself and/or TLH along we end up here, also about 1km from ours.

but on the way into town we will pass my fave pub in the town, and a place beloved of TLH, a mere 500m from ChezGrumpy

Spoilt? Me? You betcha.